Join us on Friday, February 6th from 6-8pm for our very first opening receptions of 2026!! We are so excited to present Lucas Morneau's Main Gallery exhibition, "Queer Newfoundland Hockey League", and Bethany MacKenzie's rOGUE Gallery exhibition, "(DE)COMPOSING". We will be celebrating with yummy snacks, refreshments, and great company! We look forward to kicking off this year's programming with you all!
Main Gallery - Lucas Morneau: Queer Newfoundland Hockey League
Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL) is a fictional hockey league made up of 14 teams, all with team names that include pejoratives used against the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. The artist’s reclamation of these terms not only critiques existing hegemonic masculinity in sports culture, it also aims to create a new, positive, and accepting masculinity for sports enthusiasts.
rOGUE Gallery - Bethany MacKenzie: (DE)COMPOSING
(DE)COMPOSING marks MacKenzie’s first solo exhibition and shares work that explores the relationship between her body and place as they exist within the complex histories and heritage that they both carry. Using textiles, paper making and performance combined with photo-documentation by Johnny C. Y. Lam, MacKenzie questions and examines how colonization and patriarchy have severed and stigmatized Queer-Femme identity from the land while actively creating space for unmasked Queer expression and joy. Using the Ghillie-Suit, a traditional Scottish camouflage-garment that is most commonly seen through militaristic uses, MacKenzie creates an anti-camo suit that dances along the coast of Bonavista, their current place of residence. (DE)COMPOSING refers to both the breakdown of material after death, as well as the ways we “compose” ourselves in our everyday lives. While their work appears monstrous and at times, grotesque, this exhibition is an amalgamation of Queer-Femme expression that draws attention to what is perceived to be threatening, but in temporal simultaneity is both powerful and gentle, strong and soft.
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